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eray71 t1_jcswe17 wrote

Reply to comment by asswipesayswha in Stop sign coming to Brookline Street at Franklin after numerous accidents by SpyCats

Please not speed bumps those of us with low cars and/or work trucks can’t get over them easily and have to cross at an angle, which is not ideal

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terminal_prognosis t1_jcu1s07 wrote

Never seen a low-slung work truck? What sort of work trucks have lower ground clearance than a car?

As for cars, if you lower your car and now it can't get around, I think that's on you. They put violent speed bumps in Somerville and while people whine about them all the time, the only people I've ever seen scraping their cars were going way too fast. Ironically, weirdly often in Priuses, though friends who driver Priuses say they have zero problems because they slow down for the bumps.

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eray71 t1_jcujmie wrote

For the work truck it’s not the height, it’s that my Tools get flung around and slam into each other! You’ll notice most folks, such as myself, drive really slowly in our tool trucks cuz large potholes and other road bumps can not only make a mess, but break tools! Speed bumps are brutal for the tools slamming into each other and ladders sliding around. It’s not like they will fall off, it’s just loud, unpleasant, and expensive. And i don’t mean to sound like they shouldn’t change intersections where people are getting hurt, I just think removing vision obscuring items should happen way before speed bumps!

And the other car is a bone stock 996 that can’t make it over them

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tamirabeth t1_jcu40d4 wrote

I have a low to the ground car and only have issues when I'm going too fast. I recommend slowing down.

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eray71 t1_jcuj8nl wrote

It’s not the speed, it’s the splitter. It’s a bone stock 996 that can’t make it over the ones in Sommerville unless I go diagonally.

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